116 Quotes by Soraya Chemaly

Contrary to the idea that anger clouds thinking, properly understood, it is an astoundingly clarifying emotion.

Women are just as motivated by the desire for power as men; it's just that our cultural ideas about power don't associate it with femininity.

Becoming a parent is the riskiest financial decision a woman can make.

Black children in the United States... are much more likely to report high self-esteem and have the smallest gender gap. By twelfth grade, African American students are the only subgroup in which girls have higher self-esteem than boys do... What matters appears to be parental support for a girl's staying true, first and foremost, to herself, and community honesty about discrimination and building resilience to that discrimination.

Ask a man what his greatest fear is about serving jail time, and he will almost inevitably say he fears being raped. What can we deduce from the fact that jail is to men what life is to so many women?

Nice is something you do to please others, even if you have no interest, desire, or reason to. Kindness, on the other hand, assumes that you are true to yourself first.

The first women we know are our mothers, and yet we sometimes treat them, especially when they are angry, with the least compassion. That becomes a model for how we treat other women.

One of the most astounding and telling features of the Women's March and the #MeToo movement is that they both illustrate how many angry women it takes to generate public response.

When we feel anger related to expectations or pressures of being mothers or not, that anger is often accompanied by guilt.